Make Mental Health for Young People a Global Priority
Share with friends. Take active breaks. Know your limits and learn to say no. Those are just a few of the ideas YMCAs...
YMCA Cameroon’s Dr Sonia Chedom joins World Health Organization Youth Council
Dr Sonia Chedom is a volunteer with YMCA Cameroon and the President of the YMCA branch in Ngousso. On 21...
Mental health & wellbeing summit: Conversation is the best tool we have
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close (actress) On World Mental Health...
Coming soon! 3rd YMCA Youth Led Solutions Summit on mental health and wellbeing
On World Mental Health Day, Sunday 10 October 2021 (14:00-17:00 CEST), the YMCA Movement presents its Youth Led Solutions Summits...
Mental health: inside young people’s minds
Martin Johnson is a YMCA Change Agent from Australia and has been working on mental health advocacy. His video series...
World YMCA support for Covid vaccination – in theory and in practice
In early February 2021, World YMCA stated on behalf of the global YMCA Movement that every person should have the right to...
World YMCA Annual Report 2020
The Annual Report charts both the immediate and the long-term practical and strategic response (‘Resilience’, ‘Recovery’, ‘Reimagination’) to the COVID-19 pandemic....
YMCA calls for COVID-19 vaccine to be freely and equally available to all
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people in every corner of the world, and drastically curtailed...
YMCA supports COVID-19 vaccination process
As of January 2021, the COVID-19 vaccination process has started in some countries, but we are met with fresh challenges...
Mental Health new approaches, by young people for young people
In November 2020, World YMCA along with YMCA Australia launched a global initiative called the “Mental Health & Wellbeing Reimagine...
Becoming an ‘Adaptive YMCA’ for the 21st Century
World YMCA published a blueprint for the entire YMCA Movement to navigate through and out of the Covid pandemic today,...
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the European non-governmental sector
World YMCA Policy and Advocacy Manager Razvan-Victor Sassu co-authors a piece looking at both the challenges and the opportunities presented...